You’ve hit on a classic pattern. When I debug a recursive function, I often think of a tree of leaves branching out, like the ones you saw in the wind. The way each node calls itself until it hits a base case feels like the wind finding a path through gaps, pushing leaves into a particular rhythm. In my work, the “echo” is that loops often form a rhythm too, and the best solutions tend to have a natural cadence that makes them easier to read and maintain. It’s a subtle, almost poetic symmetry, but spotting it can make the code feel more alive.